Damn, kind of disappointed you didn’t enjoy this album, at least the initial listen. It’ll probably grow on you because this album has straight bangers.

Ending of Evaporate lyrically throwsback to their past discography Step back let go/I believe there’s meaning - Surprise! I’m from Cuba from DTBM Should have listened to your friends/over this by now - Me and Zoloft Get Along from self-titled (deathstar) I’m found - and I told them I invented times new Roman from DTBM Who drains the blood - acceptance speech from acceptance speech Repeat repeat our history - tree village from Happiness What excuses do you make - Tree village from Happiness We own the night - We own the night from instant gratification For one good note - The Backwards Pumpkin song from DTBM Well don’t it feel good/ you got what you paid for - Alex English from self-titled

The Rattler is just a secret band song in the middle of a dgd album and I love it.

and evaporate and shelf life both had features, shelf life being kurt Travis from the old dgd Era of happiness and self titled, evaporate being Andrew wells from eidola and their touring guitarist

Bloodsucker is the only song in the entirety of their discography that didn’t involve will swan in the writing process. Evaporate has a medley of old dgd songs at the end of it. You probably recognised we own the night.

I still maintain that this album and Mothership are the best Tillian-era albums

First comment, good vibes from Mexico🇲🇽🤘🏾

dance gavin dance has become very experimental which some people like and some people miss the older dgd stuff I just take it as new music to listen and enjoy to :)

Fun fact but a lot of “instruments” you hear, like the “synth” in Count Bassy is just will Swan doing something weird on his guitar

all the dance gavin dance-involved bands i can think of off the top of my head: -a lot like birds (kurt travis joined for two albums after he left dgd) -royal coda (kurt's current band, also has will swan as a guitarist) -wolf & bear (tim feerick plays bass) -sianvar (will swan plays guitar alongside donovan melero, who's the lead singer/drummer for hail the sun) -eidola (dgd has pulled andrew wells, the lead singer of eidola, into the band as a live musician and he features vocals on some dgd songs) -secret band (when dgd kicked jonny craig the second time they made an ep with just screams, then later made two full length albums) -hail the sun doesn't have any shared band members, but they're the same genre and often tour with dgd, they're all buds -slaves no longer has jonny craig (surprise he was kicked out) but they managed to make two albums with jc and their most recent one with matt mcandrew is still really good -emarosa used to be metalcore, then transitioned to post-hardcore when jonny craig joined, and now they're like an 80's inspired pop band with their current singer. highly recommend you listen to their entire discography -also all three of dgd's lead singers have their own solo careers. tilian makes pop rock stuff, kurt just does whatever he feels like (i don't know how to describe his music), jonny does rnb

If you like Evaporate, PLEASE give Eidola a listen. Andrew Wells is the other singer in that song, and Eidola is his band. He absolutely kills it. All of their albums are top notch, and I'd feel comfortable recommending them to anyone.

This is their most accessible album

They said in interviews/posts after release that a good section of this album was written to be singles initially, and then they moved into making it a full album. A lot of people's initial thoughts was that DGD was going a bit more pop/clean, when in reality I'm assuming it just happened to be what songs they had written before deciding to make it an album.

totally solid review. not a terrible album, has some really breathtaking moments nonetheless. hopefully you'll love afterburner, I think a lot of DGD fans love it regardless of what era they prefer. after these guys, you should definitely check out Hail the Sun, very similar stuff to DGD. keep doing what you're doing bro :)

im so ready for afterburner bro..

I swear this is one of those albums where the more you listen to it straight through the better it gets. I go as far to say that this has more good songs on it than any other album.. not the best songs but just the quantity of good songs. Like I don't ever skip a single song going through this album.

I personally think Afterburner is their best album. Production and Mixing is at its peak, bust its also more experimental than this album but it also has that signature dgd vibes

A tiny bit disappointed you didn't exactly realize it was Kurt's voice in Shelf Life and all the other references in Evaporate in the ending. But yes this album was very different so I could imagine trying to notice everything but also be thrown off by the new feel they made here. But I think that makes It better in the aspect of they have a general "DGD Genre". I feel they pulled this album off quite well because all of these songs, in my opinion, are great. Also id like to note that the guitar work in Mothership stands out quite a bit and I feel that the Bass work in this album stands out quite a bit as well, along with the drum work in Acceptance Speech and their Afterburner Album. But yeah I'm not tryna give you shit about how to react to something, I like your dgd reactions so far and you just seem very calm and accepting about their style which is nice. But I'm glad you actually listen to the instruments and not just hear screaming and dive away from it. Good shit.

My favorite band 😍🤘🏼🔥

blood sucker has always been my favorite off this album :)

OH, THIS REMINDS ME OF ANOTHER SONG!

If you like the chill parts of Shelf Life, check out Kurt Travis's solo album from last year, "There's a Place I Want to Take You". It's all in this style.

You gotta react to knocked loose! Their discography starting with pop culture!

Andrew Wells 🥰 anything he touches is just “chefs kiss” eidola 😍😍

Please do tree city sessions with Tillians redo of the older songs !!!!!!!!

That was Andrew Green (Eidola) on the last track. You should also listen the 3 bonus tracks 3 singles and the 2 covers they've done for your last video.

that one singer on Shelf Life is Kurt Travis btw, singer in self titled and Happiness!

Artificial Selection wasnt as memorable as other albums. As you said, a lot of experimentation was done here. Still good songs, but i skip a couple just to get to the good ones.

so funny looking back at this and remembering runty thought Andrew's vocals were tilians 😂 54:37

Start doing these live and recording them

This easily tilians best album

Can’t wait for you to check out Afterburner. Such a good album. (They just got done recording album number 10)

The first half is definitely more laid back and chill than the second

56:17 "Oh this reminds me of another song" lmao

BTW bro ur discord link is expired

Love this album! You should definitely check out A Lot Like Bird’s discography. After Kurt Travis left DGD he joined with them and created some masterpiece albums. Him and Cory Lockwood bounce back and forth on scream/sing duties and it’s beautiful

@56:18 lol Well you see..... This song should remind you of like 6 different DGD songs

Orale!

I refer to this as the emo album, the most easily suggestible, but I always thought it was weird, never really stuck with me. Bloodsucker is a top 5 song for me though

Honestly one of their albums that I go back to the least. Though I’d still place it in the top half of their albums. Not a bad album, very different compared to the rest of their work. The guys experimented again with Afterburner and were way more successful, in my opinion.

This is by far their best album, not even close.

This album has its own moments, but nothing really impressive as the last albums. It has some good songs, but others that are just meh, not bad, just meh. Even tho, the experimentation was remarkable. But as all their albums, there is some growing on this one, in rythms, in guitar sounds, in techniques, in writing, producing, etc. Also in this album the dynamic between the two singers return. I consider it as a chill breather after all the disaster and chaos of Mothership. And then Afterburner appeared.

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This is probably my least favorite of their albums besides their self-titled one. Afterburner is really good, and I think you should consider reacting to their Tree City Sessions albums as well. They remix/remaster some of their top songs from all their albums!

I didn't like Artificial Selection on my first listen, just a select few. But after giving it more time I started to like it a lot more, and appreciate all the experimentation DGD was going for.

I dont personally like this album, and I love all of their albums except for Deathstar (though that one depends on my mood). Im happy for people who love it but this album is really offputting to me for some reason Edit: except for Evaporate. Love that song, especially the first 45 seconds and the ending section

dgd is aggressive cancer, it just grows on you more and more. I can't think of a single song i dont like from any album they've done